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The BOX Marijuana Weed Dispensary DC
Distance: 0.0 Mi2015 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
20009 Washington -
Servicemembers Legal Defense
Distance: 0.0 MiPO Box 65301
20035 Washington -
AHME Academy
Distance: 0.0 Mi1200 19th Street NW Suite 300 D. C
20036 Washington -
Capital City Technical Consulting, Inc
Distance: 0.0 MiPO BOX 77400
20013 Washington -
Pure Medical Shop
Distance: 0.0 MiEagle Pass, TX 78852 USA
94005 Washington
Description
Impeachment of the President can bring out the very best or very worst in America's democracy. The ability to remove from office our highest official reflects the depth of our commitment to a government of laws, not men. When Richard Nixon resigned from office in 1974, under threat of imminent impeachment, many foreign leaders were bewildered. They assumed throughout the Watergate affair that, if he had to, Nixon could always clamp down on the media, strike back at his enemies, somehow use his power to secure his position. In those countries, it takes bullets, not ballots, to remove a leader from the throne. But in America, there is no throne. Indeed, a major impetus for the American revolution was oppression by the British monarchy. The Declaration of Independence catalogued the numerous ways in which King George mistreated the American colonies. So too, our Founding Fathers knew, monarchs often oppress their own people. When the Framers set out to draft a Constitution in 1787, one of their goals was to prevent monarchy by another name. They took pains not to give the President too much power.